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taylaron
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Greetings PFers,
Can someone help explain to me the difficulties of designing a device which utilizes static electric fields to map an objects’ internals and externals?
My understanding is that as a electric field propagates through matter, it encounters absorption.
I envision a device which utilizes a RF emitter and a sensor 180 degrees opposite the object being scanned. Wouldn't this scanner function much like a CT scanner? As the field penetrates more matter, its field strength decreases a measurable amount.
Conductive objects would make scanning difficult because they would conduct the electric field, instead of impeding it.
-Tay
Can someone help explain to me the difficulties of designing a device which utilizes static electric fields to map an objects’ internals and externals?
My understanding is that as a electric field propagates through matter, it encounters absorption.
I envision a device which utilizes a RF emitter and a sensor 180 degrees opposite the object being scanned. Wouldn't this scanner function much like a CT scanner? As the field penetrates more matter, its field strength decreases a measurable amount.
Conductive objects would make scanning difficult because they would conduct the electric field, instead of impeding it.
-Tay